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| 19 | 290 | By this View more quotes about time">time the bids had increased to two hundred and forty. |
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| 19 | 287 | Again the girls were commanded to walk about the block, and they did so, proudly, irritably, as though wishing to express only contempt for what they seemed to regard as the rabble about them. |
| 19 | 288 | When they had finished, Virginia now stood toward the center, with Phyllis behind her and to her left, and Elizabeth behind her and to her right. |
| 19 | 289 | The three whip slaves then again climbed to the block. |
| 19 | 290 | By this time the bids had increased to two hundred and forty. |
| 19 | 291 | There were some cries of protest, perhaps from less-affluent bidders, that the girls were not of High Caste. |
| 19 | 292 | The auctioneer then motioned to the whip slave who stood behind Virginia. |
| 19 | 293 | He drew her left wrist behind her back and snapped it into the open slave bracelet, thus confining both wrists behind her. |